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A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked: Including an Autobiography, and the Clinical Section of the Broad Range of Use of Phenytoin

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I came across this book by chance,and it is the most amazing medical book I have read in a very long time. Jack Dreyfus met with two presidents, a vice president, the heads of the FDA and others to try and be a help to humanity. This man started a foundation which has spent over 80 million dollars trying to get the benefits of this drug out to the public. At the age of 45 he became severely depressed and was seeing a psychoneurologist 6 time a week, and eventually had himself voluntarily commited. He asked his doctor to use this drug and was litirally helped within the hour. The book reads like a novel after that as he struggles to let the world know about the other uses of this drug.This man is a humanitarian of the highest order, and this book will definitly change the lives of many people who have a wide variety of illnesses.

A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked (Dilantin) by Jack Dreyfus is one of those very, very rare books where the author claims an FDA approved medicine, in this case Dilantin, improved the ability to think more clearly. There are other books about Dilantin, like Nerves In Collision by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D., but Jack Dreyfus's account is quite exceptional. The only other book I know which compares to it is How to Cure Hyperactivity (ADHD)(1981) by Anita Uhl Brothers, M.D., of Berkeley, California and C. Thomas Wild which is about an FDA approved caffeine compound which can reduce distractibility and increase attention span a little for a small subpopulation of those with mild Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).

this is one of the most informative and well written books - I found it after seeing the remarkablemedicine website - it tells of Dreyfus' realization of the amazing versatile uses of dilantin - a medicine that is effective for a whole host of conditions and not just epilepsy. The book is must reading for all doctors and everyone interested in biography - Jack Dreyfus - he has unbelievable talents - and his discovery of the uses of dilantin is so important the whole world should know it. Read the book and check out the website - this story is important for everyone to know.

This is a remarkable story, a remarkable man, and a remarkable medicine. A Dr. first gave this book to me 14 years ago - it changed my life. Like Jack Dreyfus I lost interest in things I once enjoyed and like Jack Dreyfus I lost perspective and couldn't watch the news which is full of so much horror and sadness. People would tell me I needed to keep well informed, but it created panic attacks and I couldn't get it out of my mind. Drs. experimented with all kinds of medications that made me very ill and some that are habit forming nightmares. ONE INFORMED Dr. gave me this book and with Dilantin helped me get off all the "expensive, helpful medicines" that were making me worse. This book is written from the heart - just as the research was conducted. Thanks Dr. Roberts - Thanks Jack!!!

I find it interesting that Jack Dreyfus had his own severe anxiety / depression / insomnia cured almost immediately by use of Dilantin. I find it even more interesting that Mr. Dreyfus is STILL going strong at age 92 (yes, he turned 92 this year).

It seems apparent that this particular reviewer did not fully read the book - or didn't understand it??? (In fact sounds like one of those in the "medical profession" whose very attitude has stonewalled legitimate extensive testing and education regarding this clearly remarkable medication). I say this as the doses recommended for use in this book are far below that used by epileptics and side effects at those levels have been very minimal. In fact, Dilantin is beginning to be thought of (in low dose formulas) as a component of antiaging medicine.

I also find it amazing that there's an admission that "proven nothing short of miraculous for millions"... and yet is then immediately described as a very unsafe medication (???).

Hmmm... who now seems to have a specific agenda here?

Did this particular reviewer even bother to check out the huge number of studies and trials done on PHT (Dilantin)? Or was this more a matter of "don't confuse me with the facts"?

A pharmacist specifically should have known that the fact is that PHT (Dilantin) has considerably fewer side effects and less serious ones than most of the more "modern" medicinces being pushed today. And at the doses recommended for non epileptic uses, those side effects are even much less of a problem. (At a well-looking age 92, it doesn't seem that the PHT / Dilantin has hurt Mr. Dreyfus to any noticeable degree)....

What is even more ironic is that most educated people today know that most people in the medical profession obtain a significant amount of their "education" of pharmaceuticals from drug company sales reps (whose agenda is clearly to push the latest patented versions of whatever the "flavor-of-the-month" happens to be).

Finally, Jack Dreyfus - nor ANY of his organizations - have ANY financial interest in Dilantin (PHT) in any form whatsoever. And his ongoing foundation (the Dreyfus Medical Foundation)? It is strictly a charitable medical organization.

I continually was fighting suicidal feelings and had gained 60 lbs in just over a year on prescription anti-depressants when I saw this book, A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked, by Jack Dreyfus, in Barnes and Noble and bought it in March 1998. I had just turned 48 years old.

After reading the book I gave it to my psychiatrist, who read it and agreed to let me give low-dose Dilantin a try. I take low-dose Dilantin to this day, and by the time the first script needed renewal my family doctor agreed to prescribe it as I no longer was seeing a psychiatrist.

Without Dilantin I don't know where I'd be today. Low-dose Dilantin has had only side-benefits for me. For instance, in addition to brightening my outlook with no other medications, it cured me of cold hands and feet, a lifelong problem, and I lost 50 of those 60 extra pounds easily. It also allows me to sleep a normal 7 to 9 hours a night instead of the 14-16 hours I had been sleeping for nearly a decade prior to finding out about low-dose Dilantin.

Jack Dreyfus is one of my heroes. Thanks, Jack.

As a pharmacist, I found the book to be very inaccurate. Dilantin has proven nothing short of miraculous for millions of epileptics for the past 65 years, and has proven useful for peripheral neuropathy and (to a very minor extent) bipolar disorder, but it has side effects that are often very unpleasant and is notorious for producing drug interactions.

I believe that many alternative and off-label therapies have legitimate use, but this is a vanity publication that has about as much merit as supermarket tabloid advertising.

I am grateful that people have not bombarded their doctors with requests for this "miracle" drug.

As a pharmacist, I found the book to be very inaccurate. Dilantin has proven nothing short of miraculous for millions of epileptics for the past 65 years, and has proven useful for peripheral neuropathy and (to a very minor extent) bipolar disorder, but it has side effects that are often very unpleasant and is notorious for producing drug interactions.

I believe that many alternative and off-label therapies have legitimate use, but this is a vanity publication that has about as much merit as supermarket tabloid advertising.

I am grateful that people have not bombarded their doctors with requests for this "miracle" drug.